Here are the bike links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:

Modest anti-theft proposal: VengeCycle.com promises to “make thieves think twice about taking your bicycle” by strapping a GPS-activated explosive to the handlebars. (“Damage is generally limited to the hands and is not considered lethal. … You will have to purchase a new handlebar. … Make sure to check that unlicensed use of explosives is legal in your state beforehand.”)

Car man: When a Beijing resident tried to beat a traffic jam by driving in a protected bike lane, one fellow stood in the way.

Bono’s wipeout: The U2 frontman’s “high energy” bike crash, caused when he swerved to avoid someone else riding through Central Park, broke his arm, his left eyesocket, his left pinky finger and his shoulder blade in three places.

Finally, your video of the week is a time capsule of impressive fixie tricks from 1965. (BP reader Jessica Roberts also notes that Yokoi’s costume would look great on every BMX freestyle performer.)

If you come across a noteworthy bicycle story, send it in via email, Tweet @bikeportland, or whatever else and we’ll consider adding it to next Monday’s roundup.

CORRECTION: The original version of this post referred to VengeCycle.com as a “spoof site.” The CEO of VengeCycle says that while the product is “unlikely” to ever be sold in the U.S., it is “unquestionably a real product.” We regret the error.

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I’ll bet there aren’t any pedestrians on it, though—and probably no broken glass or light poles or dogs, or signs or storm drains to have to dodge. I’d love a path around here where I could hold a line without having to weave around any of the above or get face-whipped by overhanging blackberry vines.

I gather that for various reasons it’s not cool to like Bono or U2 anymore, but speaking as someone whom The Joshua Tree is still just about the greatest album of all time, man, that was a nasty crash, and I’m sure I wish Bono a full recovery. BikeLobby, whose tweets I generally get a laugh out of, crossed a bit of a line that day, I thought.

While I don’t totally disagree, splitting user groups apart and attacking individually is a tried and true sierra club tactic for eliminating use of trails entirely to allow their actual end goal, having the trails grow back over and become unusable.

In case anyone else is curious about the math on this: that’s 382,091 millionaires, and the chance that a random New Yorker is a millionaire (excluding home value, I think) is about 50 percent higher than the chance that a random American is.

I agree it is a terrible idea to booby trap a bike with explosives (not least because it would get you into a LOT of trouble in this Homeland Security era), but I’m not above booby trapping a blinky light with a sharpened, hard-to-see thumbtack to slice up the finger of someone trying to remove it.

That video about the Transbay Terminal, once and future, is a fascinating document. You could say this is the fulfillment of many long unfulfilled promises of the late 20th Century US: re-build multimodal transit so that people using all the non-car modes can efficiently connect, get where they want to go, and, while we’re at it, make it attractive and well lit. The Transbay Terminal, in my experience (1991-2004), had become a pretty dark and grimy place with little hint of its past glory. But the sad irony is that this is a 20th Century project a couple decades too late. Every brick and piece of wavy glass and LED artwork in that gargantuan piece of hopeful infrastructure is premised on the continued availability of cheap fossil fuels and electricity made from them. It will be interesting to see how this project meets the actual 21st Century needs of the people of California, once it opens.

The article regarding the NYPD enforcing “Vision Zero” is hilarious given the stated goal and the means delivered to reach the end goal. “The fundamental message of Vision Zero is that death and injury on city streets is not acceptable… [unless injury is the result of bringing compliance of Vision Zero against non-violent users]”

It would seem to me that if the Police Department in Anytown, USA (not just NYC) wanted to apprehend scofflaw cyclists, they could do it just like they would for scofflaw drivers: pursue them with a police vehicle with lights, sirens, and loudspeaker until the vehicle operator pulls over. If they don’t pull over after a few blocks, I guess they could be considered to be attempting to elude. But still, there have to be better ways to take your lumps for a traffic violation other than literal lumps.